Extra, Extra

- NY Mosaico is asking people to send letters to the Manhattan DA to make sure the off-duty and drunk police officer who shot photographer Julio Ortega is tried properly (they have PDFs in English and Spanish)
- The Javits Center expansion was approved... yay?
- Another story about the police horses that need to move from their Chelsea stables to parts unknown
- Maybe the future is actually in glass, as glass is the new brick of NYC residential architecture
- The firefighters' union claims its trucks are unsafe
- A LES actor stopped a would-be rapist, apprehended him, and was recruited by the NYPD!
- And congratulations to Melissa Plaut, New York Hack on news of her book deal - we'll definitely be buying a copy when it comes out! (You can read our interview with her)
- Borough Park guy speaks about the rioters and police, and a controversy about something a high ranking police official said: "F--- the Jews'' and "F--- the community"!

Photograph of today's sudden snow shower from x-eyedblonde on Flickr

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on April 5, 2006 6:10 PM

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cgee

Holy cow, Ziggy Sobotka kicked some ass! Dave H is correct; PJ Ransome whipped it out on The Wire. From what I recall, he was pretty big for a little guy ;-)

Ms. Maybelline

Ok, this is the second blatant error of reporting on your site...the cop ran the photog over in his car. Gee, is fact checking a lost art?

Nancy

if you read the weather report, the snow shower wasn't really sudden. it was forecast...just sayin'!

Susie

I recall that a previous Gothamist post mentioned that a collection was being set up to pay for Julio Ortega's funeral expenses.

Does anyone have any information about that?

just saying

"off-duty and drunk police officer who shot photographer Julio Ortega. . ."

I thought he killed him with his vehicle. But this is not the first incident of a drunk cop running over someone. A few years ago, a drunk cop ran over and killed a young mother and her children in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Apparently drinking and driving is part of the cop culture in NYC--or maybe it's just plain arrogance. A lot of the cops in Brooklyn don't even bother to stop at the traffic lights when they're just cruising around the streets.